Dem voters have been to the left of Dem leadership for at least a couple of decades now. But the big corporate donors don’t want policies that help people. They want neocon subjugation.
This fact is now recognized by a majority of democratic voters, for the first time in my life.
And therein lies my hope.
THESE are the Things that Democrat Voters WANT and will WILLINGLY vote for? Well I GUESS we have NO Choice but to TRY and Court MAGA votes!
-James Carville!
Don’t worry, theres still plenty of time for the democratic party/DNC to fuck everything up in favor of the republicans-from-40-years-ago democrats.
republicans-from-40-years-ago
You’re off by a factor 10.
republicans-from-400-years-ago???
;-)
I am sure they just mean democratic voters not actual democratic candidates.
Our oligarchs still largely fund politicians, so our politicians naturally tend to favour the belief system of their funding.
Democratic candidates will campaign on retaking both houses and then promise to work across the aisle for common sense tax reform.
Prosecuting the facsists and making sure this crap can’t happen again is essential. Focus on that motherfuckers.
It should just be the progressive party. I’m so done with the bullshit that changes nothing of the status quo that everyone is unhappy with.
This is the best time for it to be implemented. The next president will have the biggest opportunity to make huge sweeping disruptive changes. I just don’t think the democrats have the balls to force it like they will be able to with the sweep.
Yeah they see it, but the standard Democratic politician will not do shit about it. Vote for the Progressives.
Wait are they seriously listening finally?
No this is just the people saying it not leadership saying/part of the dems platform
Because nothing could be more objectively and obviously true
Essential as a policy or essential as a campaigning slogan?
I can’t access this site because of a Datadome block.
I’ll give you the first paragraph of each section.
Introduction
Liberal Democrats now make up a clear majority of their party and view universal healthcare, greater abortion access and higher taxes on the rich as essential political positions, underscoring how Democrats have moved leftward in recent years, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.
String of Victories
Insurgent left-wing candidates this year have racked up a string of primary victories over more centrist Democrats, many of whom were backed by the party establishment. They have gone beyond New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s election last year in a deeply liberal city to vie for office in more politically divided states.
Divisions on Israel
Only 16% of Democrats support military and economic support for Israel, while 57% oppose it, according to the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among liberal Democrats, more than 80% said reducing or eliminating that support was either important or essential for any liberal; only 18% said it was not important.
And this is the poll of interest:
After 30+ years, Democrats are finally showing some recovery from the BS that was neoliberalism.
The polls have been consistently showing progressive policies have been popular for quite a while. It’s the party that wasn’t going along with the wishes of voters.
While I’m in favor of increasing taxes on the rich if given the option, it’s always felt like such a bandaid measure. Our society should be structured in a way that doesn’t produce these people in the first place.
Yeah but taxing the hell out of them helps with lowering production of them. The highest bracket tax rates used to be >90%
I’m aware of this. The problem I have is that it basically means they are subsidizing large segments of our economy, making us more dependent on them. More dependence gives them more leverage, and eventually only continues this back and forth we have now.
I still support it, as I said previously. But it’s never going to solve the root problems, which are executives and corporations as institutions. They need to be supplanted.
I think it would mostly balance out though, for individuals. Right now, their greed is boundless because they keep practically all profit made so nothing mitigates their desire for more, more, more.
But when they know they only get to keep 8% of what they make beyond a certain point, they won’t have as much motivation to keep squeezing more and more out of their customers (or whatever the money source is). As the tax rate increases with income, an equilibrium would be approached where they wouldn’t consider it worth the effort to keep pushing for more, knowing there’s a functional limit to just how much wealth they can accumulate after that point.
I agree with you that this only addresses part of the problem. Another important legislative step is to take back control over corporations and forbid monopolies again! We used to, but the antitrust and other laws controlling their growth and power have been effectivley dismantled and now we’re in a new gilded age.
Those two things could be implemented quickly, along with eliminating some of the more egregious tax loopholes. Then over time reform (or replace) the whole tax code (enormous task).
I don’t care how we get there, just fucking get us there. The destination requires empathy to find it, so the monsters should mostly get lost trying to follow the old paths.
